“You get a strange feeling when you're about to leave a place, I told him, like you'll not only miss the people you love but you'll miss the person you are now at this time and this place, because you'll never be this way ever again.”Azar Nafisi book Reading Lolita in TehranSource: Reading Lolita in Tehran
“I no longer believe that we can keep silent. We never really do, mind you. In one way or another we articulate what has happened to us through the kind of people we become.”Azar Nafisi Source: Things I've Been Silent About: Memories
“She was one of those people who are irrevocably, incurably honest and therefore both inflexible and vulnerable at the same time.”Azar Nafisi
“There is little consolation in the fact that millions of people are unhappier than we are. Why should other people's misery make us happier or more content?”Azar Nafisi